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/ 21 January 2006
A distressed Michaella Krajicek became the first victim of furnace conditions at the Australian Open on Saturday when heat exhaustion forced the Dutch teenager to concede her third-round match. The sight of the 17-year-old breaking down in the heat has again raised questions about the safety of conditions at the grand slam.
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/ 21 January 2006
A handbag containing jewellery worth more than 000 has been returned to a woman who left it hanging on a shopping trolley in a car park, Australian police said on Saturday. The handbag contained gold bracelets, rings, earrings, chains and pendants — plus a large sum of cash.
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/ 21 January 2006
Freezing air from Siberia sent temperatures across much of northern and eastern Europe diving on Friday and the death toll from the cold rose to more than 70 in Russia, the hardest hit in the region. Temperatures fell to minus 33 degrees Celsius in the eastern part of Estonia.
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/ 21 January 2006
The embattled Tokyo Stock Exchange said on Friday it will expand its daily trading capacity to prevent a repeat of Wednesday’s debacle, when a high-profile investigation into the internet firm Livedoor prompted a flood of sell orders that forced the exchange to close early.
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/ 21 January 2006
Concern over four oil workers held hostage in Nigeria grew on Friday night after their captors warned that one was gravely ill and that fresh attacks on oil installations were imminent. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, a militant rebel group, seized the Royal Dutch Shell employees last week.
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/ 21 January 2006
He is not meek, he is not blond and he most definitely is not white. A new interpretation of the Bible has cast Jesus Christ as a revolutionary fighting oppression in contemporary Africa. Son of Man, made in South Africa, was shot in rural Eastern Cape and in Khayelitsha township outside Cape Town.
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/ 21 January 2006
Canada looks poised to take a turn to the right on Monday, when elections are widely expected to end more than 12 years of Liberal government and bring to power a Conservative leader known for his opposition to the Kyoto accord on global warming and his support for United States President George Bush’s missile defence scheme.
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/ 21 January 2006
The Iranian government has started moving billions of pounds in assets from Britain and the rest of Europe in case international sanctions are imposed over the nuclear crisis. Iran’s pre-emptive action marks a significant escalation in the stand-off between Iran and the West. It is the firmest sign yet that Tehran fears sanctions will be imposed.
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/ 21 January 2006
Threats of sanctions are against Iran are immature, and a referral to the United Nations Security Council would not help alleviate the nuclear crisis in Iran, its acting Foreign Minister, Mehdi Mostafavi, said on Friday. Speaking after a week-long visit to South Africa, Mostafavi said Iran will not be deterred from its nuclear programme.
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/ 21 January 2006
The KwaZulu-Natal government has pulled out of the annual re-enactment of the historic Battle of Isandlwana on Saturday, costing the event a financial injection of R200 000. The treasury said anyone authorising expenditure on the event would have to reimburse the province with his or her own money.